A Depraved Condessa

Rafael Menton brings us his short-tale of a warped and powerful Condessa in nineteenth-century Spain. A Spanish aristocrat who seeks the man her vampire lover once promised would be so completely hers and pleasing to her - regardless of her treatment of him; that he would be hers completely and men other than him will become no more than the merest of brief diversions. The man she eventually finds is a hate-filled husband whose wife - the wife he loves and who loves him right back - has been stolen from him by one of the Condessa's fellow aristocrats. The bitter and heartbroken husband is also a robber who refuses to tell the authorities where he has hidden the bonds and coinage he has stolen from a Valencian finance house - despite the tortures he has undergone. A robber not to know that what he prizes most is about to be stripped from him and placed in the hands of another. His life! A man the Condessa will delight in bending to her will.
Along with her two equally dominant and sadistic African maids. Fantastic but believable female-led fiction for those readers who prefer to use the darker sides of their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines. Mr Menton is a Professor of English Literature with a retro passion for the early to mid-twentieth-century fiction of mystery, crime, suspense, and horror & romance with erotic female-led undertones.
Mr Menton's literary tastes ranging from Doyle and Blackwood and on to Rohmer - as well as sometimes indulging in a more contemporary take of his own on the work of those masters.